Rori Picker Neiss
By Rori Picker Neiss
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Community Dear Jewish community – here’s what to do now
As protests continue across the United States, we are witnessing at the forefront, a conversation about what the Jewish community relations field has long understood to exist under the surface: systemic racism underlies and permeates our societal structures. Policies such as housing and zoning practices, inequitable school funding, access to early childhood education, differential policing…
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Opinion Fighting Anti-Semitism Isn’t Just About Jews. It Kills Non-Jews, Too.
Anti-Semitism kills. Racism kills. Islamophobia kills. Homophobia kills. Bigotry kills. Each of these forms of bias uproots lives, devastates families, and destroys dreams. They kill violently and they kill painfully. Most shockingly of all, they kill indiscriminately. As a Jewish community, we fight anti-Semitism not only to protect ourselves, and not only to protect the…
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Opinion I Am A Maharat. The O.U. Thinks I’m The Biggest Threat To The Jews.
I don’t know that I will ever get used to the fact that I make some people uncomfortable. Partially because there is very little that is imposing about me. I am not particularly tall, nor do I appear to be particularly strong. Yet, as an Orthodox Jewish woman who has been ordained as clergy, I…
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Life Why I Was Arrested in St. Louis
The hardest part about getting arrested was when they took away my necklace. I had not mentally prepared myself for it, probably because I forgot that I was even wearing it. It is a gold chain with three charms, each bearing the initial of one of my children. The necklace, and subsequent charms, were given…
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Life How Will I Teach My Future Son About Race in America?
Creative Commons When the ultrasound technician told us that we were expecting a boy, I was in complete shock. After two daughters, it had never occurred to me that I could have a son. I teased my sister-in-law that if the baby was a boy, I would send him to her house to be raised…
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Opinion Why Jewish Silence on Ferguson Is Not an Option
Demonstrators protest the killing of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri / Getty Images After weeks upon weeks of news reports that detail what seemed to be never-ending violence in Israel and Gaza, compounded by accounts of a rise in anti-Semitic attacks in Europe and Canada and even across the United States, it would have…
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